People are insane- Campers Already Out Awaiting Black Friday Deals

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Even though the deals for this year’s Black Friday shopping at Best Buy have yet to be released, two women have started their annual camp-out experience in front of a local store.

Vickey Torres of Cabazon and Juanita Salas of Beaumont arrived at Best Buy in Beaumont on Wednesday— 22 days before deals begin for the infamous shopping day on Thanksgiving night.

“We could have started later, but then we wouldn’t be sure to get first in line,” Torres told Patch on Friday, as she and Salas sat under the hot sun in front of the electronics store. “They only get a few items at the cheaper prices and it’s first come, first served.”

Torres and Salas said they’ve each camped out in front of Best Bay for “the last few years.” Each women says they take turns heading home to shower and eat during their stay.

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http://patch.com/california/banning-beaumont/campers-already-out-beaumont-awaiting-black-friday-deals-0

[sharp_stick]

1. I wonder what it's like

to have so little to do that you could actually do this? Then I wonder how bored you must be to actually consider something like this as a way to kill time.

[jollyreaper2112]

2. wtf

1. Take the $ of savings anticipated from what they buy black Friday.
2. Multiply a day's wages times how many working days they'll use by camping out. If it's vacation days, shake your head.
3. If savings is less than lost wages, shake your head until it snaps off your damned neck. This world ain't worth living in.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. .

[QED]

4. But would they bother to vote?

Effed up priorities....

As long as people have their iphones, the TPP won't matter.

[DrDan]

18. do you know they didn't vote?

[wandy]

5. And then their was the great time of holiday buyjoy............

Entire familys would camp out at the door step of trinketmart without regard to cold or snow waiting for the iPads chime of midnight on turkeysmerkey day. Waiting with freatoed breath for Blackfridays glow when they would rush forward madly kicking and elbowing all that stood between them and the cherished iToster. All knowing that this was only the first part of the American holiday known as Cheepchineese.

A dystopian science fiction future worthy of Phillip K. Dick.

[Chellee]

8. LOL - I adore it!

in the immortal words of Tweety, "HAH!!"

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. I hope it is nothing like last year..

42 Million Dead In Bloodiest Black Friday Weekend On Record

NEW YORK—According to emergency personnel, early estimates indicate that more than 42 million Americans were killed this past weekend in what is now believed to be the bloodiest Black Friday shopping event in history.

First responders reporting from retail stores all across the nation said the record-breaking post-Thanksgiving shopping spree carnage began as early as midnight on Friday, when 13 million shoppers were reportedly trampled, pummeled, burned, stabbed, shot, lanced, and brutally beaten to death while attempting to participate in early holiday sales events.

Law enforcement officials said the bloodbath only escalated throughout the weekend as hordes of savage holiday shoppers began murdering customers at Wal-Mart, Sears, and JC Penney locations nationwide, leaving piles of dismembered and mutilated corpses in their wake.

“The level of bloodshed this year was almost beyond imagination—no prior Black Friday could have prepared us for this,” said National Guard commander Frank Grass, talking to reporters in front of the still-smoldering remains of a local Best Buy that was burned to the ground Saturday. “We had fire trucks, police cruisers, and guardsmen stationed at multiple locations, but it was useless. At the moment, hundreds of thousands of American shoppers are still unaccounted for, and we expect $2 billion in damage has been wrought upon our cities.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/42-million-dead-in-bloodiest-black-friday-weekend,30517/

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. One can only hope.........

Good lord...Best Buy make Sears look good.

[B Calm]

7. Makes me wonder what kind of fun they have camping out. Is it a big party

after dark?

[daredtowork]

9. Actually this could be a GOTV idea: "Camp to Vote"

Somebody should start this as a meme next election cycle and set up tents at polling places. That image could converge neatly with Occupy, too. If civic laws disallow the tents, fly them overhead like UC Berkeley did.

[seveneyes]

10. When Black Friday comes

I'm gonna dig myself a hole

[Nay]

11. Just once before I die, I'd like to see the Black Friday sales mostly

unattended. I know, I know, I'm not gonna die happy....

[Initech]

12. Black Friday is just a reminder of how little American workers are paid.

If we were paid fair wages, we wouldn't need to be camping out for weeks to save money on a brand X flat screen TV. And yet we continue to put up with this shit year after year. This is exactly what's wrong with an economy that relies on goods and nobody has any money to buy the shit being hawked by the upper 1%.

[VScott]

13. Too bad there's not a forecast of rain for the next 22 days.

[logosoco]

14. What would the store or local law enforcement do if homeless people tried this?nt

[LanternWaste]

15. I did this in 1977 when Star Wars opened.

I did this when I was ten, during the summer of 1977 when Star Wars opened. Great movie... I was really entertained by it; but then again, I'm insane.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. I did it too, same year!

and 20 times after that.

I was a lot older than 10.
It was a thing that me and my 3 house mates did on midnight Friday movies....make brownies with our special secret herbal recipe.
Long lines, every time.
Then the opening scene in the movie where the spaceship goes overhead for what seems to be forever, and everyone in the theater all went
"woowwwwwwwwww" at the same time.
And we all knew,in an instant, that everybody there was stoned.

Seattle...1977....good times.

[lindysalsagal]

16. "Take turns going home and showering...." Does that qualify for first in line?

The stores encourage this squatting. It's total crap. It's probably against health code, too.

These sales do nothing to encourage the rest of us to shop there.

[Cali_Democrat]

17. LOL!

Yes, the photo on the right is an actual photo taken on Black Friday.